Newport Beach Film Festival Honors Talent Including Eddie Redmayne, Majors, Keke Palmer
variety.comVariety’s Legends and Groundbreakers Award on Ron Howard, the festival will recognize several creatives at their 2022 Festival Honors on Oct.
16 and Eddie Redmayne on Oct. 15. Eddie RedmayneIcon Award When Oscar winner Redmayne sat down in his first production meeting for “The Good Nurse,” his daughter had just been born.
His daughter is 6 now as the feature is finally seeing its Netflix debut on Oct. 26. “It’s been a passion project, and it’s been one of those projects that each step of the way has been massively enjoyable, despite the intensity of the subject matter,” Redmayne says.
The feature, directed by Tobias Lindholm, is inspired by the true crimes of nurse Charlie Cullen who was investigated by nurse Amy Loughren, played by Jessica Chastain. “With this film, I was really lucky that, firstly, I was able to meet the real Amy Loughren,” Redmayne says. “She entrusted me with extraordinary information about her friendship with Charlie and about who Charlie was that — looking back on it — I wouldn’t have been able to play him without.
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